Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A) Competitors

Suburban Propane Partners (NYSE:SPH) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT.A) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in SPH or HVT.A?

30.9% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.8% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SPH or HVT.A?

Suburban Propane Partners received 246 more outperform votes than Haverty Furniture Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.38% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote while only 57.22% of users gave Suburban Propane Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Suburban Propane Partners	Outperform Votes 309 57.22%	Underperform Votes 231 42.78%
Haverty Furniture Companies	Outperform Votes 63 62.38%	Underperform Votes 38 37.62%

Is SPH or HVT.A a better dividend stock?

Suburban Propane Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Haverty Furniture Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Suburban Propane Partners pays out 114.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Haverty Furniture Companies pays out 75.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do analysts rate SPH or HVT.A?

Suburban Propane Partners currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.89%. Given Suburban Propane Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Suburban Propane Partners is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Suburban Propane Partners	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Haverty Furniture Companies	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has higher valuation & earnings, SPH or HVT.A?

Suburban Propane Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Haverty Furniture Companies. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Suburban Propane Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Suburban Propane Partners	$1.33B	1.03	$74.17M	$1.14	18.59
Haverty Furniture Companies	$862.13M	0.43	$26.09M	$1.59	14.14

Does the media prefer SPH or HVT.A?

In the previous week, Haverty Furniture Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Suburban Propane Partners' score of 0.67 indicating that Haverty Furniture Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Suburban Propane Partners	Positive
Haverty Furniture Companies	Positive

Is SPH or HVT.A more profitable?

Suburban Propane Partners has a net margin of 5.59% compared to Haverty Furniture Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Suburban Propane Partners' return on equity of 12.64% beat Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Suburban Propane Partners	5.59%	12.64%	3.22%
Haverty Furniture Companies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more risk & volatility, SPH or HVT.A?

Suburban Propane Partners has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Suburban Propane Partners beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.